The building of such a resplendent edifice left the financial most favoured rebirths awaited those possessed with the desire and modell ed means to construct and donate splendid to the Order were also on the of celestials. Monks in their sermons to the laity of such dwellings rewards within the grasp of those known to elaborate on some of known to use examples unerring generosity Than Tun 1978: 109). They were as Nimi lataka(No. 541) and descriptions from some of the minor anthologies of the Pali Canon such as the of the Mansions(Vimana Vatthu) intimating that various donors, such as the rich widow Visakha, were reborn as deva. Through the power of her merit she was said to have had a great mansion that could travel through the sky, beautified with many pinnacles with park, lotus-pond and the like, sixteen yojanas in length and breadth and height, diffusing light for a hundred youanas by its own radiance' and when the devi went anywhere with her mansion, she was accompanied by a'retinue of a thousand heavenly nymphs' (Kennedy and Gehman 1942: 76)